Historical book/CD published

Tuesday

Oct 2, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Historical Society in Monroe County

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The Monroe County Historical Society has recently published a directory book and photo CD for historic Stoutsville Cemetery and nearby St. Andrew Cemetery in Monroe County, Missouri. The tall obelisk that marks the graves of Judge Henry Dooley and his wife Nancy towers over most of the other stones in Stoutsville Cemetery. Judge Dooley and his wife deeded the initial parcel of land in 1882 for the establishment of a public burying ground at Stoutsville, Missouri. Various additions of land over the years make up what we now know as Stoutsville Cemetery. Although official records show the cemetery was established in 1882, existing headstones show several earlier burials in the 1860s and 1870s. More than 1000 burials as of 2012 are recorded in the new directory book which supersedes and corrects all transcriptions of the cemetery.

St. Andrew Cemetery was established in 1916, thirteen years after St. Andrew Catholic Church was built in nearby Stoutsville, Missouri. The new directory book records 104 burials in St. Andrew Cemetery from when it was established to the present time. Both cemeteries are still in use and have active cemetery associations. Maps showing burial locations in each cemetery were created as part of the project and are included in both the book and CD. All surviving headstones in both cemeteries were photographed in row order in March 2012 and then compared to previous transcriptions, death certificates, obituaries and other records available to the Historical Society.

The Monroe County Historical Society also has copies available of the recently published Volumes 1 and 2 of Nancy Stone's Monroe County History columns from the Lake Gazette during the period 2006-2011. Each volume is approximately 130 pages in length and contains about 60 of her best columns and are available at the Monroe County Historical Research Center in Paris.

Cost of the Stoutsville/St. Andrew Directory and CD is $35 for the set or $20 each. Members of the Monroe County Historical Society receive a discount. Please include $4.00 for postage if mailed. Contact the

Monroe County Historical Research Center, 112 S. Main, P. O. Box 131, Paris MO 65275 or phone 660-327-1831 for more information. This is the fourth volume in a series of updated cemetery transcriptions with a companion photo CD published by MCHS. Each booklet includes an alphabetical list of known burials with birth and death dates, plus a section and row chart that gives the name of a spouse and/or parents as determined primarily from headstone engravings, death records and obituaries. The companion CD includes photos of all headstones in alphabetical order. Pleasant Hill Cemetery was published in 2009 and has been updated recently. In 2010 a second set which includes Bryan, Cedar Grove, Long Branch and New Hope cemeteries was released followed by a third set in 2011 for Bethel Cemetery in Holliday, Missouri. Booklets and CDÂ?s are still available for each of these earlier sets.

The Monroe County Historical Society is a non-profit 501(C)3 corporation founded in 1967 to preserve the history of Monroe County. All profits from the sale of these booklets support that mission.